No rationale, Mario. Indians were always horny toads and sex was part of
their culture as evidenced by Kama Sutra.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mario Goveia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <goanet@goanet.org>
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Goanet] India: The Fatwa against Mini-Skirts
I stand corrected. Apparently, it isn't just
Khajuraho, which is the only place where I've seen
similar images. I would be interested to learn the
rationale for the explicit sexual images in these
temples.
--- Santosh Helekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> This author has apparently taken Khajuraho and
extrapolated from that.
>
Since I pointed out that I have seen erotic images
of
deities in the temple friezes of Goa, let me provide
some pictoral evidence of this from the famous
Kamat's
Potpouri website:
http://www.kamat.org/picsearch.asp?search=Erotica&PageNo=1
I remember having seen such images in at least a
couple of Goan temples, the Mahalaxmi temple in
Bandoda most likely being one of them. In the above
weblink Kamat provides 169 photographs of erotic
temple images from many temples dispersed all over
India, including the Partagal temple in Goa. You
will
find pictures from temples in Bhatkal, Hosanagar,
Barsur, Nad-Kalse, Ikkeri, Bhuvaneshwar, etc.
displaying a wide range of erotica.
Cheers,
Santosh
